The Crazy Programmer
JUNE 29, 2021
In computer science, software documentation is the procedure of writing, designing, and documenting an application. In software engineering, this refers to the formal specification of a software product or component. Software documentation should serve as an instructional manual for users and developers alike. It also refers to the textual, visual, or audio instructions accompanying computer software.
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TechCrunch
JUNE 29, 2021
Orum , which aims to speed up the amount of time it takes to transfer money between banks, announced today it has raised $56 million in a Series B round of funding. Accel and Canapi Ventures co-led the round, which also included participation from existing backers Bain Capital Ventures, Inspired Capital, Homebrew, Acrew, Primary, Clocktower and Box Group.
Martin Fowler
JULY 1, 2021
When you are using Leaders and Followers, you can use Follower Reads to achieve better throughput and lower latency. However there is always a replication lag between the leader and the followers, so you may need to take action to preserve consistency. more….
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Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.
Let's Grow Leaders
JULY 2, 2021
When decision-making or problem-solving meetings bog down and become a waste of time, there are usually two problems causing the stagnation. In this episode, you’ll get the tools to overcome both of these problems before they derail your team. Take these two quick actions before you discuss any problem and your team will make better decisions – faster.
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TechCrunch
JUNE 28, 2021
Side , a real estate technology company that works to turn agents and independent brokerages into boutique brands and businesses, has raised “$50 million-plus” in a funding round that doubles its valuation to $2 billion. The latest financing comes just three months after the San Francisco-based startup raised $150 million in a Series D funding round led by Coatue Management at a $1 billion valuation.
Martin Fowler
JUNE 29, 2021
A personal note on why I wish to give up doing talks.
Let's Grow Leaders
JUNE 28, 2021
As You Return to the Office, Make a Deliberate Plan. You’ve learned a lot about how you work and what makes you most productive over the last year. You had more choices on how to structure your day, when (and with whom) to engage. You figured out what worked best for you. The return to the office can feel as overwhelming as that initial, emergency pivot to working from home. 7 Tips for staying productive as you return to the office (or move to hybrid work. ).
CTOvision
JUNE 28, 2021
Steve Zalewski is the Interim CISO at Levi Strauss & Co., and an esteemed member of the Balbix Advisory Board. Balbix founder and CEO Gaurav Banga recently met Steve for a chat on how organizations can kick their cybersecurity programs into high gear to keep up with the attackers and the general need for speed […].
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IT leaders know the importance of compliance at every level, but the database often gets left behind as other environments are automated for robust protection. This whitepaper emphasizes the importance of robust, auditable, and secure database change management practices for safeguarding organizational compliance. Learn how automating database compliance: Mitigates risk Protects against security vulnerabilities Helps avoid regulatory penalties Aligns database workflows with app lifecycle Turns d
TechCrunch
JULY 2, 2021
Evan Fisher. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Founder of Unicorn Capital and Minimal Capital, Evan Fisher 's pitching and investor strategy has helped startups raise more than $2.5 billion. Let’s play out this scenario. Your deck is ready and you’re just about to start reaching out. What does conventional wisdom say that you should send? A three-paragraph overview, four bullet points outlining the problem, and three bullet points on how you solve it and why you’re the best.
DevOps.com
JULY 2, 2021
On the surface, AWS resource tags are simple, informational key:value metadata that you can assign to most AWS resources. They also have many hidden benefits, as outlined in this AWS Tagging Best Practices guide for improving cloud operations. There are six use cases author Brian Yost calls out in particular: AWS console organization and resource […].
Honeycomb
JULY 1, 2021
Modern software services are expected to be highly available, and running a service with minimal interruptions requires a certain amount of reliability-focused engineering work. At the same time, teams also need to build new features and improve existing ones, so that users are delighted and don’t churn. Balancing these two categories of work is a challenge for every engineering team.
CTOvision
JUNE 30, 2021
Read Steve Banker explain the concept of circular supply chain and how it can lead to supply chain sustainability on Forbes : Supply chain sustainability is increasingly important for the future of business and the world as a whole. Companies are investing more money into sustainability initiatives, seeking to reduce waste and carbon emissions. As […].
Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage
Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.
TechCrunch
JULY 2, 2021
Until children reach a certain age, enrichment programs are somewhat limited to school, sports, and camps, while money-making opportunities are largely non-existent. Now, a year-old, L.A.-based startup called Mighty , a kind of Shopify that invites younger kids to open a store online, aims to partly fill the void. In fact, Mighty — led by founders Ben Goldhirsh, who previously founded GOOD magazine, and Dana Mauriello, who spent nearly five years with Etsy and was most recently an advisor
DevOps.com
JULY 2, 2021
A survey of 600 IT professionals published this week by mabl finds the biggest barriers to adopting DevOps practices are more closely related to organizational issues rather than any technology. Conducted by mabl, a provider of a test automation platform, the survey identified non-technological issues as the main inhibitor to DevOps by a wide margin […].
TechBeacon
JULY 1, 2021
As multi-cloud and hybrid cloud become the norm, enterprises have come to understand that they need a tool set that sits above the cloud brands to manage all public and private clouds.
CTOvision
JUNE 28, 2021
Read why Ian Allison feels that in the near future, mainstream banks could opt for Ethereum 2.0 on Coindesk : Banks could one day be key participants in Ethereum 2.0. It’s a trend that will soon garner as much attention as institutional interest in bitcoin, say firms like Blockdaemon and Bison Trails, which provide the […].
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Multi-tenant architecture allows software vendors to realize tremendous efficiencies by maintaining a single application stack instead of separate database instances while meeting data privacy needs. When you use a data warehouse to power your multi-tenant analytics, the proper approach is vital. Multi-tenant analytics is NOT the primary use case with traditional data warehouses, causing data security challenges.
TechCrunch
JUNE 27, 2021
The pandemic has spurred interest in saving and investment apps around the world , especially ones geared toward newer investors. In Southeast Asia, startups in this space that have raised funding over the past few months include Ajaib , Bibit and Stashaway —and that’s just a (very) partial list. Now Infina , which calls itself the “Robinhood of Vietnam,” is announcing an oversubscribed $2 million seed round.
DevOps.com
JULY 1, 2021
One of the hallmarks of DevOps is to improve the delivery of software. Therefore, mature DevOps systems employ continuous delivery (CD), the process of releasing bite-sized software changes on a regular basis. Amid high demand for digital innovation, streamlining this release pipeline is becoming more and more crucial for enabling overall software fluidity.
Dzone - DevOps
JUNE 30, 2021
Certificates are always a pain in the production environment! Security is the one the most important part of any application these days especially the fact that most of the applications are running on a public cloud provider puts the security part on a higher priority. One of the ways application are using to keep communications secure is through the certificate.
CTOvision
JUNE 28, 2021
Read Adrien Gendre’s analytical article about why anonymity is an important aspect of supply chain security on Infosec Magazine : The SolarWinds breach of 2020 was widely considered the biggest cyber-attack in history. Just three months later, the Microsoft Exchange hack took its place. Both had far-reaching consequences that affected not only SolarWinds and Microsoft, […].
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Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.
TechCrunch
JUNE 30, 2021
Kikoff , a personal finance platform aimed at helping consumers build credit, announced today that it has raised $30 million in a Series B round. The capital is in addition to the $12.5 million the startup raised across previously unannounced seed and Series A rounds, which were both led by Lightspeed Venture partners. Portage Ventures led Kickoff’s Series B, which included participation from Lightspeed, GGV, Coatue and Core Innovation Capital.
DevOps.com
JUNE 28, 2021
While its roots can be traced back to rapid-application development (RAD), low-code application development started to gain serious momentum about three years ago. Initially, some in the DevOps community dismissed the trend, even as myriad approaches—from no-code to low-code for professional developers—started to enter the market. At the time, enterprises of all sizes had embraced […].
TechBeacon
JUNE 30, 2021
Many organizations struggle to struggle to control ustructured data—text files, emails, instant messages, word processing documents, and media files—across their environments. One tool that's often used to protect unstructured data is data loss prevention (DLP). These tools alone, though, can't cope with the data protection, privacy, and management needs of businesses today.
CTOvision
JUNE 28, 2021
Read Tom Davenport, Theodoros Evgeniou, and Thomas C. Redman explain how you can fix your data supply chains on Harvard Business Review : Data management has bedeviled large companies for decades. Almost all firms spend a lot on it but find the results unsatisfactory. While the issue does not appear to be growing worse, resolving […].
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Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.
TechCrunch
JUNE 28, 2021
Duolingo , a Pittsburgh-based language learning business last valued at $2.4 billion, has officially filed to go public. The 400-person company, which we explored in great detail in our EC-1 , was co-founded by Luis von Ahn, the inventor of CAPTCHA and reCAPTCHA, and Severin Hacker. One of the most revealing bits of its story? It’s a route to monetization as a then rare edtech consumer business based outside of Silicon Valley.
Aqua Security
JULY 1, 2021
While Docker has become synonymous with containers, various container tools and platforms have emerged to make the process of developing and running containers more efficient. Still, a lot of the same principles around Docker security apply for protecting container-based applications built with other tools as well. We compiled 20 essential Docker security best practices into the most comprehensive hands-on guide that will help you build more secure containers.
TechBeacon
JUNE 29, 2021
When a cloud migration fails, it's not pretty. Systems are left in limbo: some have been fully migrated to the cloud environment, while others are still running on premises because they've not been able to be migrated to the cloud.
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